Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (born in Qom circa 1959) is a politician in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, he was appointed as the new interior minister of the country by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners based on the orders of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other key politicians. According to Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi was "the representative of the Ministry of Information in charge of questioning prisoners in Evin Prison" during the massacre. Montazeri saw Pour-Mohammadi as being "a central figure" in the mass executions of prisoners in Tehran.show more